Tom Gill (January 21, 1891 – May 21, 1972)

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Thomas Harvey Gill (January 21, 1891 - May 21, 1972) was a leader in American forestry, adventurer, writer of popular fiction and editor of an academic journal.

Gill served as a forester with the U.S. Forest Service from 1915 to 1925. From 1926 to 1960, he led the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation. He played an important role in establishing the forestry division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and founded the International Society of Tropical Foresters.

In 1938, along with Harry Stack Sullivan and Ernest E. Hadley he founded the interdisciplinary journal Psychiatry: Journal of the Biology and Pathology of Interpersonal Relations (now Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes).

Tom Gill authored many popular and academic works. His fiction centered on stories of adventure involving cowboys, forest rangers, and frontier characters. His 12 books of fiction included Guardians of the Desert, Death Rides the Mesa, North to Danger, Firebrand, and No Place for Women.

Fox Movietone adapted Gill's story The Gay Bandit of the Border, releasing the film as The Gay Caballero in 1932.

Tom Gill died in 1972.

First Book - Going! Going! (1923)

Last Book - No Place for Women (1946)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harvey_Gill